I work in the nursery at church, and last year when we got the FP nativity set down, one of the little boys (of course) wanted to know which ones were the bad guys. I will never forget that, it still makes me chuckle. He had the shepherds and the wise men fighting each other every time they played with that thing!

One of my friends from high school posted on her fb page that she noticed her Baby Jesus went missing from her nativity set. Of course, the next day I had to ask her if she had found Jesus yet….to which another friend responded “seek and ye shall find him.”

I love your post today!!! My kids were enthralled with Baby Jesus for three straight years. I purchased them the little baby Jesus from Fontanini . . . each of them had one . . . now our four year old has them all. Go figure!

Haha!! I love it! While we are not enacting the miraculous birth of our Savior, my kids do call Santa by his full name: “Santa Noah Moses”. Apparently the white beard that Santa has looks like the beards that both Noah and Moses have in our kids’ Bibles. I love the confused looks people got this year when they asked our kids if they were ready for Santa to come….”Santa Noah Moses makes toys at work”

On a really neat note, you know how sometimes you wonder if your kids are really listening to you at all? Well, the other day while we were driving to Sam’s (my favorite place on Earth), a news clip came onto the radio talking about how 10s of thousands of people were in Bethlehem for Christmas and my 3 year old literally screamed “MOM!!!! BETHLEHEM!!!!!!” and proceeded to tell me that Baby Jesus was born there and that the angel said ‘do not be afraid’. I’m soo glad they were really listening to me!

This was a such a sweet post. I especially like the live nativity scene in the barn. It made me recall my own childhood when I told the nun three wiseguys showed up to see baby Jesus. Can you tell I was born in NY and raised in NJ?
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This is great! My 3 year old is also obsessed with the nativity and I love it! We have to stop and observe every nativity while driving around looking at lights! I’m thrilled that Jesus is more important to him than Santa at this stage.

Awesome!!! My then 3 year old had a fascination with Jesus one year, she asked incessantly to hear the Christmas story and peppered us with questions. One day on seeing a picture of Jesus she announced ‘I know him, he goes to our church!’ turns out she was convinced she went to the same church as a very famous 2000 year old saviour of the universe! Once she found out he was just a very ordinary father of four she was never quite as interested!!!!